Innovation challenges across Wales have opened, looking to procure innovative solutions to reduce missed appointments and modernise bowel screening pathways under its Contracts for Innovation Cymru (CfIC) programme. With ambitions to reduce the number of missed appointments and improve access to planned care, CfIC is seeking innovations addressing areas including […]
Author: Jennifer Turton
Leeds Community and Leeds and York Partnership share outcomes from AI pilot and work on digital inclusion
Leeds Community Healthcare NHS Trust and Leeds and York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has shared progress with its ambient voice tech pilot and its work focusing on digital inclusion. A pilot of Heidi AI at the Leeds Gender Identity Service aimed to address the services’ “admin burden and its significant […]
UK Health Security Agency market engagement for tech supporting contact tracing, infection surveillance and response
The UK Health Security Agency has opened a market engagement to understand capabilities in surveillance, infection identification, case management, and contact tracing during a UK health emergency. The agency sets objectives to support preparedness planning and ensure access to scalable and deployable digital capabilities that can aid in reducing transmission […]
CDIO appointed for new Online NHS Trust
The Online NHS Trust has announced the appointment of the former CIO and executive director of Genomics England as its chief digital information officer. Pete Sinden has been appointed following his work on the early stages of development, establishing national partnerships, as well as the governance and technical foundations required […]
AI Implementation Framework for Ireland outlines five phase approach for AI projects
The Health Service Executive (HSE) for Ireland has published an AI implementation framework outlining a five phase approach for AI projects from identification and prioritisation through to deployment and ongoing monitoring. It is designed to support with the implementation of the government’s AI for Care strategy, published earlier this year. […]
Moorfields AI spinout Cascader completes seed funding round
An AI spinout from Moorfields Eye Hospital NHS Foundation Trust has completed a seed round to help accelerate the translation of AI from research to clinical care. Cascader, a partnership between Moorfields, Topcon Healthcare, and UCL Ventures, is a medical technology company applying AI in the field of oculomics, and […]
Royal Papworth Hospital and Cambridge University Hospital to share EPR
Royal Papworth Hospital NHS Foundation Trust and Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are to introduce a shared electronic patient record across the organisations. The partnership will see Cambridge University Hospitals’ existing Epic system extended to the Royal Papworth, whose current Lorenzo EPR is to be discontinued. Both trusts will […]
Scotland’s Programme for Government 2026-31: £10bn capital, £200m annually on elective capacity, AI hub, Hospital at Home expansion
Scotland’s Programme for Government 2026-31 has been published, sharing government commitments to deliver a “stronger NHS”, including £10 billion in capital spending over the next decade, £200 million annually on elective capacity, and the expansion of Hospital at Home. The NHS in Scotland will be simplified by replacing the current […]
FDA awards $1.2 million contract to test use of generative AI in assessing AI-radiology reports
Cognita Imaging, a subsidiary of Mosaic Clinical Technologies, has been awarded a $1.2 million contract by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to test a new approach for evaluating AI-generated radiology reports. The project will see the use of multiple large language models (LLMs) to “work as a jury” […]
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board and DHCW on data use, cloud, and dashboards
Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB) has shared an update on its use of data in clinical decision making, service planning, and performance improvement, noting the role of tech and digital skills in enabling staff to both access and use reliable information. Use of the National Data Resource (NDR) has […]
